Broward County wants you to go fishing – for tires, tennis shoes and other castoffs cluttering the canals. The 36th annual Broward Waterway Cleanup will take place March 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 26 sites across Broward. About 2,000 volunteers each year help clean items big – like a refrigerator – and small, like the 3-foot angel statue more appropriate for a garden, said Lacie Randall, spokeswoman for the Marine Industries Association of South Florida. To sign up, go to http://www.waterwaycleanup.org , or call 954-524-2733.

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LAUDERDALE LAKES -- A Lauderhill woman was arrested on Wednesday after a security guard accused her of taking a pair of Reebok gym shoes priced at $59.84 from a store in the 4000 block of West Oakland Park Boulevard, the sheriff`s office said. The security guard told deputies he saw the woman place the sneakers in her handbag, pay for other items, then leave the store.

Shanna Francis couldn't contain her emotions after winning the 100-meter dash during the recent Broward County middle school track and field championship meet at South Plantation High School. The eighth-grader at Lauderdale Lakes Middle School threw up both arms, smiled and then was overcome by tears. "I waited so long for this," said Francis, 14, who zipped through the event in just under 14 seconds. "When I crossed the (finish) line, I just kept thinking, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!

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An armed robber who appears to wear an size 8 shoe - or maybe a 10 - went on a shopping spree of sorts at a North Lauderdale sneaker shop after realizing there was no money in the store's safe. Among his loot: two pairs of high-end sneakers, ballcaps, socks and some cash from the register. The incident was caught on video before the thief made a squeaky getaway. According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, the Jan. 17 robbery took place inside the Footlocker store in the 1300 block of South State Road 7. Police said that around 9 p.m., a man buying socks suddenly pulled a gun and ordered employees to open a safe.

Jason Shatsky should be hanging out with friends, playing ball and dating. That's what 15-year-old boys do. Except this one has no time for such nonsense. Jason, a freshman at West Boca Raton Community High School, is building a business selling sneakers to people twice his age - and he's making some nice change in the process. In less than a year, Jason raked in almost $60,000 in sales and banked about $8,000 in profits. He snatches up the latest basketball shoes when they're released, marks them up and resells them through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and his own website.

LAUDERDALE LAKES -- For the second time in two weeks, a man stole sneakers from the Shoe Bazaar on Northwest 19th Street. In the latest incident, which occurred June 8 at about 4 p.m., the thief brought three pairs of sneakers up to the cash register and then fled out the door without paying. The sneakers were valued at $190.

Roderick Alexander refused to take off his sneakers. For that, he was shot twice in the leg, police said. Alexander, 27, of Pinewood Avenue, told police a man approached him Thursday afternoon and demanded the sneakers, claiming they were his. The man shot Alexander twice when he refused to comply. Alexander was later found lying in the front yard of a vacant house on 47th Street. He was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center, where he remained in stable condition late Friday.

In a federal investigation, authorities have busted a black market sneaker scheme out of Nike's Oregon headquarters. Nike employees stole and sold sample shoes around the country for as much as $20,000 a pair, USA Today reported Friday. Nike Basketball's "promo product manager" Tung Ho, 35, worked with his alleged middleman and reseller, Jason Keating, 35, of Sanibel, raking in tens of thousands of dollars . Ho secretly ordered pre-production Nike sneakers, known as "Look See" models, directly from Nike's factory in China.

Jason Shatsky should be hanging out with friends, playing ball and dating. That's what 15-year-old boys do. Except this one has no time for such nonsense. Jason, a freshman at West Boca Raton Community High School, is building a business selling sneakers to people twice his age - and he's making some nice change in the process. In less than a year, Jason raked in almost $60,000 in sales and banked about $8,000 in profits. He snatches up the latest basketball shoes when they're released, marks them up and resells them through Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and his own website.

Wearing sneakers doesn't mean you get to make some sneaky moves on total strangers at Total Wine. Orlando cops said they arrested a man, identified as Robert Greis, 67, after he allegedly laced cameras to his tennis shoes and slid his sneaker under a woman's skirt at Total Wine, reports WESH NBC News-2 in Orlando. The woman's boyfriend made a citizen's arrest, according to the report And how the heck do you lace a camera to your sneakers, anyway? Get the DUHtails at WESH NBC News-2 in Orlando.

Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options (JAFCO) will host its inaugural "In My Sneakers" 5K run/walk Oct. 20 at the BB&T Center in Sunrise. The event, chaired by Sharon Wender and Craig Konhauzer, honors devoted families in the community who are raising a child with a developmental disability. All proceeds will benefit JAFCO's Respite and Family Resource Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities, as well as current programming offered by JAFCO to children and families - including family support groups, in-home counseling, crisis support, case management, information and referral.

The children bounded off the school buses toward the Milagro Center in Delray Beach where they usually spend their time after school doing homework. On Aug. 23, the children, who attend schools in Delray and Boynton Beach , received a welcome surprise: brand new, name-brand shoes. The Milagro Center is one of several South Florida organizations to receive athletic footwear from Shuzz, a local nonprofit group that provides sneakers and cleats to underprivileged children both here and abroad.

Air Jordans topped the 14-year-old's list of back-to-school "necessities. " When my kids make ridiculous demands for outlandishly expensive things, such as $150 basketball shoes, I often invoke Mick's Law: You can't always get what you want. Jagger, the lippy, zillionaire rocker, knows a thing or two about money, having attended the London School of Economics. But I wander. Anyway, I told Ryan I was in. For $50. His older brother had suffered the same shoe sequestration, I explained, and upped the cool factor by adding his own money to my personal budget-control act. But there was no sneaker slush fund.

Investigators are trying to identify three men caught by surveillance cameras using a stolen credit card to buy pricey sneakers at a Lauderdale Lakes store. Broward sheriff's detectives on Thursday released the video showing three men walking into a Nike Factory store in Sunrise, hours after a woman's purse and the credit card inside it were stolen. According to officials, the purse was stolen about 11:40 a.m. April 13 from the Universal Matress Shop along the 3000 block of Northwest 19th Street in Lauderdale Lakes.